Adelaida Lower
The Empty Mirror: A Viennese Mystery
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A young country girl, model and lover of painter Gustav Klimt, is viciously murdered in 1898 Vienna. Klimt, the bête noire of Viennese ...Read Review
The Hakawati
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As young Osama travels back to war-torn Beirut to his father’s hospital bed, he reflects on the stories that his parents, sister, ...Read Review
A Manuscript of Ashes
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Resolving to flee the tumult of the university in the late 1960s, Minaya, a young student, decides to leave Madrid and write his ...Read Review
The Journey
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In the introduction of The Journey the translator writes, “Neither Germany nor the world was ready for novels about the Holocaust in the 1950...Read Review
For a Sack of Bones
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Awarded the highest prize in Catalan letters, the Ramon Llull Prize, this somber novel, first published in Spain, tells a tale in the ...Read Review
Abbeville
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When the dot-com bubble bursts at the end of the 20th century, George Bailey reassesses his life. He worries that his family is ...Read Review
Flight of Souls
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Having been raised and abused in foster homes and reform schools, John Alexander, a student of anthropology and folklore, leaves the U. S. ...Read Review
A Golden Age
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Tahmina Anam, the author of this first novel, begins powerfully: “Dear Husband, I lost our children today.” The voice is that of ...Read Review
The Winter of the World
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Love, betrayal, and a terrible debt to pay are the themes of The Winter of the World, the debut novel of biographer ...Read Review
The German Bride
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It’s Berlin, 1865, and Eva Frank, the romantic daughter of a Jewish banker, falls in love with a handsome painter commissioned by her ...Read Review
